The coronavirus has claimed its youngest victim, a 12 year old girl from Belgium became the youngest coronavirus death after passing away on Monday after testing positive for the virus according Belgium authorities.
A spokesperson for the Belgium Crisis Center for Coronavirus Emmanuel Andre said that this was “an emotionally difficult moment because it involves a child” and that this loss also “upset the medical and scientific community”.
Emmanuel Andre also said:
We are thinking of her family and friends. It is an event that is very rare, but one which upsets us greatly,
The girl had a fever for the last few days and was tested positive for the coronavirus before her death according to another spokesperson Steven Van Gucht.
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More details about the girl were not revealed this deaths makes this the youngest fatality from the coronavirus in Europe.
The number of COVID-19 cases in Belgium have crossed 12,500 with over 700 deaths and the number keeps rising rapidly with over a hundred deaths being reported everyday.
Earlier cases involving children that died from the coronavirus was a 14 year old boy named Vitor Godinho from Portugal and a 16 year old girl from Paris who was only identified as Julie A.
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